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Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates how students’ collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...

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Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, empirical evidence is lacking. We use data …

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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players’ abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...

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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer

Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...

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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...

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Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism

Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Pfeifer, Christian; Cornelißen, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …

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Rottenberg and the Economics of Sport after 50 Years: An Evaluation

Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that certain features of professional sports … considerable debate amongst sports economists. In particular the assumption of profit maximisation has been challenged and a … divergence of views, reflected in the so-called North American and European models of sports leagues has emerged. Over the last …

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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

incentives are further increased. Finally, the market for sports betting does not seem to be aware of this phenomenon, suggesting …

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

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